Biting the Bullet

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A collection of essays, articles, speeches and reviews that are representative of the work of the author, a well-known Australian literary figure and former director of the Literature Board of the Australia Council, recipient of a number of poetry prizes and awards. His previous books include the novels TThe Birthday Gift' and THotel Bellevue'.I am a refugee from the days of manual mowers and the guerilla warfare of
paspalum, the quickness of crowfoot and the blatant campaigns of bindi-eye. If
the casualty section of the general hospital is called the Victa Ward, the motor
mower still calls forth my homage; it is a ... The Saturday or Sunday murmur of
motors is its cantus firmus, and kids rolling and tumbling across lawns are its
justification.

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Biting the Bullet

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Thomas W. Shapcott

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- 1990-01-01

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